And when LLMs write ‘better’ according to your standard — as if stating by negating was an issue before — what then?

If other approaches didn’t improve people’s writing you think LLM-shaming… will?

This is kinda cute because it glosses over the lack of critical thinking skills, lack of research skills, and willingness to believe magic bullets, which would make most of us believe nothing of substance and yet fall for anyone with a silver tongue. Heck, we’re already dangerously close to that without LLMs.

> We already know what we need to do and we're already not willing to do it.

Those in power are not willing to do it.

(I think most of humanity would be okay with, say, heavily taxing super wealth to protect nature, fight climate change, or feed the poor. They’d also be okay with regulating pollution or not allowing 3M to ruin Belgium’s groundwater.)

He is a profound believer in the absolute freedom of the individual, provided that specific individual is him, and perhaps three of his closest friends.

thiel doesn't have friends he has assets or challenges.

Bet he has his family in a CRM and thinks of them as P&L!

Afghanistan has a very, very competitive tax rate, and he won’t have to sponsor road construction or practically anything else. What a dream!

If any corporation wants a bailout, it should… I don’t know, actually. In their model, it should simply go bankrupt? Okay, let’s do that.

yes, i'm sure thiel would be against bailouts. but palintir got their start spying, so they know the wierd shit the govs want them to build, and hapilly will build for a price.

> … connotation of envy. We consider taxes to be theft.

Wow. Envy. I don’t think there’s any way to refute this that would click with those that believe in it. Just… impressive.

I had some income on Germany’s 42% bracket. The marginal tax ends up lower. Regardless, I was constantly appalled by how envious everyone is. That 1% solidarity tax: envy. My public, not-for-profit health insurance: envy. I don’t know. I’m sure people at a hospital are going there just to spite people that earn lots of money.

Yeah, it’s envy. Nobody wants a good, shared society, and it’s clearly not been skewed towards making life harder for the low and middle classes. Nah. We’re just jealous mate.

I want my family to be healthy and happy. My kid to grow up in a comfortable-ish world without climate catastrophes. He’ll go to public school. Has a library card. You know, the basics. We don’t need a million euros. We don’t give a shit about the billionaire lifestyle.

Taxes are theft, sure, but one we collectively agree with in return for… well, everything else.

My partner touches the 40% bracket in Belgium. 40% hurts when you know a millionaire or even billionaire here will pay marginally less because of how we tax wealth and capital gains. But it’s alright, taxes are lower on the lower brackets; and a great deal that is, because those with less get the same benefits while paying less! Crazy, right? What a stupid system… (/s)

These people might want to put down Atlas Shrugged and read some Pratchett, maybe a Tolkien. I don’t know, something chill and heart-warming.

It’s done, it’s great, fantastic and even unparalleled. Thiel is gonna do the same with Argentina, the acronym even remains the same so the China-made hats can be reused.

Damn, Australia and Austria are next

My perception is that these 2 are already great countries :)

I was prepared to dismiss your comment because rsync has always been rock solid, but indeed upgrading broke my backup script. The latest issue on GitHub documents plenty of bugs introduced in the last 2 patches, including a monstrous ~9k LOC commit that was probably pointless.

LLMs make writing code faster/easier, but the thinking was always the important bit. I’ve no idea why you’d muck up such a long-standing, reliable piece of software.

When LLM allows you to produce code n% faster, it also allows you to introduce bugs n% faster.

I find it quite strange that people do not seem to be aware of that...I think many started worshipping the tool as if it was some kind of divinity and lost all objctivity. This doesn't bode well for the future if people aren't able to review code anymore.

Don’t need people to review code, need more LLMs. People aren’t that magical.

Maybe one day. Right now I can have Opus carefully draft a plan, Sonnet execute it, and have Opus review the code. It will complain about things that it had dismissed in the plan.

Example: it recently flagged ID derivation from a signing key. Opus itself suggested it! When reminded of that, it did this new 4.8-style “my bad, and here’s why I was right in the first place.”

Humans are still badass.

You don’t think it’s smart to get reliable funding this way? From Banking the Cash Cow?

Devstral is getting better, it’s the Vibe harness that’s holding it back (I think). I can see how that would drive some business as well.

Their chat thingie isn’t very well positioned, but gets results. Could be an euro or two per month, maybe bundled with some more features. It’s not like Mistral has no options, if anything they’re just a bit complacent and not ambitious with their plans.